I wish I could go all day without thinking about food. I'm constantly thinking about when it will be time to eat or what I will have for dinner. However I am constantly drinking something due to dry mouth from meds... I have to! So atleast I'm getting some water in.

My eyes are bigger than my stomach and I'm trying to kick that problem!

I do the fast easy, heat and eat meals myself. I'm sort of a picky eater. I know what I like and I stick to it. Thankfully I don't tire of the foods I like. Right now it's a lot of oatmeal, soup and tea. I love the chunky soups. Especially the rice and chicken ones, they are good, good for you and low in cals.... sorry my vegetarian friend lol.

Hahaha I'm a soup fan too, but it's hard when I diet because I can't have crackers to go with it.

I do this because of job. And of I eat not great day before I have no appetite for breakfast. Planning is best for me to help. If I plan my meals it's easier for me to stick too.

My body won't let me forget to eat. I get so hungry if I don't eat that it becomes a distraction. And then there's the funny things that happen to my blood sugar if I got a long time without eating.

Yes, serenity, work is definitely one of those distractions that makes me forget to eat. I need to be a better planner. My husband and I talked about cooking ahead and breaking meals into individual portions to be frozen and microwaved, but right now there is a huge turkey in the freezer and no room, and I have to wait on him to do something with it because I'm a vegetarian (have been since I was a little girl) and I have no clue what to do with it - not that I'd touch it even if I did. Hahaha

Traveling - I hear you about the blood sugar. Sometimes wooziness is what makes me remember to eat, but that's only when I've already ignored the pangs of my stomach eating itself - like if I haven't eaten all day and it gets to be like 7 pm. I'll start feeling like I'm going to pass out. Then I binge. Ay yi yi. It's so stupid and simple to solve, but I can't seem to find the motivation or energy. Deep breaths, it WILL get better, it WILL get better...

Maybe try to eat at 5pm on the dot and close the kitchen at 730pm for the night. This is what I do.

That's a good idea. I think for me part of the problem is that my husband usually works until really late. He gets home between 9 and midnight, and then he cooks, which makes me hungry. Ugh. I usually try to ignore the smells, but sometimes I have a yogurt while he eats just so I won't go nuts. I even tried going to sleep before he gets home so I wouldn't see, hear or smell it, but then there were days when I didn't see him at all because he left before I woke up and came home after I was sleeping. He's very driven, works on commission and won't quit working until he feels he's squeezed every possible nickel out of the day, which is perfectly fine with me because the guy I was with before him was perfectly happy for me to be the breadwinner and I really resented him for it. Geez, I have a lot of issues - like a million contributors to my weight problems...and probably a million excuses too. This site, and you folks are a great new start for me though. :o)

Yeah my husband gets up at 10pm and has his "breakfast" at 1030pm. The smells can drive you crazy. I spend that first half hour with him then head off to bed so I'm not tempted. But I can still smell the foods lol.
Maybe that would be a good time for a cup of tea instead. Not his sugary stuff tho lol. I like orange and Chai and will start with the peppermint at night this weekend. I use zero calorie sweetener in it. There are also "diet" or low cal cocoas out there if you need a chocolate fix.
But having a yogurt while he eats is a good compromise also!

You're right. I'm not a tea person (except for hubby's super sweet tea that I can't have - hahaha), but maybe what I'll do is get de-caf coffee and make one of my faux mochas. :o)

I wish I could go all day without eating. Have not done that in years. I eat whether I'm hungry or not at specific times. Between 11 and Noon I have lunch. By 4PM I'm making dinner to eat in the next 15 to 20 minutes. If dinner takes more time I start it earlier so that we can eat by a little after 4. Hubby gets home around 4 and the kids have activities at night so eating then is one of our only chances to eat as a family. Even if we go out to eat, we are early eaters at places usually having our food by 430 at the latest. Around 8 or so I have a snack. I don't eat breakfast. If I do, I eat all day long. If I skip it I only eat 3 times.

I can't say that I have ever gone without food long enough to have my stomach remind me. I did one day when I was dating start the day at 5AM with a garbage truck fire to extinquish, and breakfast after that around 8. Then I napped for a few hours, and went to work. At the time I worked in a bakery and didn't have much time for a proper meal. Boyfriend picked me up from work, we stopped to get ice cream and I stepped out of the truck and hit the ground due to lack of food. Stomach didn't tell me I was hungry, body did. But that was many years ago.

I eat worse at night. This week I am cuttings myself off by 6. The making meals and freezing is good idea. Then you have options when not alot of time to cook. I don't have space for that.

It might be because ulcers run in my family. Coffee "burns" my stomach a lot too. It's good you make time for a family meal. That's important. It's better to eat earlier than later anyway. :o)